taint

中文： 污染、败坏、玷污

1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. (transitive)
2. To spoil (food) by contamination. (transitive)
3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. (intransitive)
4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction. (intransitive) · Meat soon taints in warm weather.
5. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks. (transitive)

He/she/it taints · 过去式 tainted · 过去分词 tainted · -ing形式 tainting